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Sunday, August 24, 2025

Bands missed at Glastonbury! | Cymande - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival UK 2025 | Albums That Should Exist

 I know these guys were around for an age disbanded and then reformed but their recent resurgence on the media is astonishing . . . I had no memory of them at all! Sorry!

Cymande - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-29-2025

Paul he say: Here's another album from the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. This one is a lesser known but interesting band called Cymande.

I'm so glad that this band got enough votes in the Glastonbury poll I had here. I had liked some of their music, but I'd had no idea they'd still existed in 2025. They are a British band, but many members originally came from different countries in the Caribbean, and that mixture led to an usual musical style. Their Wikipedia article says, "Cymande were noted for an eclectic mix of funk, soul, reggae, rock, African music, calypso, and jazz." They released three well-regarded albums between 1971 and 1974, but then they broke up. However, they regrouped in the 2010s, and released new albums in 2015 and 2025. 

Here's their Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Cymande - Wikipedia 

As usual with this concert, the music is unreleased, but the sound quality is excellent. I started with a high quality video file, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s. 

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Getting It Back 

02 Crawshay 

03 talk 

04 Chasing an Empty Dream 

05 Brothers on the Slide 

06 talk 

07 For Baby Ooh 

08 Dove 

09 Bra 

10 talk 

11 How We Roll 

12 talk 

13 Coltrane 

14 The Message 

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